“When you go to Lane you have 4,400 friends and family. So when something happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.”
Tonight at 7 p.m. the Lane Tech HS community will host a vigil to remember Jemel Roberson. I’ll be there covering it for @BlockClubCHIhttps://blockclubchicago.org/2018/11/13/vigil-at-lane-tech-high-on-friday-will-honor-slain-security-guard-jemel-roberson/ …
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Ariel Atkins, from Black Lives Matter Chicago, asking the crowd to support each other in mourning but also stepping up to end deaths like Jemel Roberson’s.
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Aislinn Pulley, from BLM CHI and an alum of Lane HS. She and members of the crowd want the name of the officer who shot Roberson, that he be fired and for Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx to charge him with 1st degree murder.
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It’s not too windy but it is cold. Hand warmers and hot coffee is at a warming station courtesy Chicago Action Medical.pic.twitter.com/46ElR0Hy8m
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After the moment of silence the crowd released balloons to honor the memory of Jemel Roberson.
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At Vigil For Jemel Roberson, Grief-Stricken Supporters Told ‘Turn Your Emotions Into An Action’ https://blockclubchicago.org/2018/11/19/at-vigil-for-jemel-roberson-grief-stricken-supporters-told-turn-your-emotions-into-an-action/ … via
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